In The News: Department of Political Science
He sought to invalidate the results of the 2020 elections, tried to attack democracy and fueled the rebellion - this is what the prosecutor's office believes. Donald Trump was charged many months ago. - The attack on our nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021 was an unprecedented attack on the seat of American democracy. As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. The defendant's lies were intended to obstruct the process of collecting, counting and certifying presidential election results across the country, according to Jack Smith, the special prosecutor investigating Donald Trump.
Eve Smith, co-founder of custom print-on-demand products service PrintKK, readily admits that her company has been navigating the fine line between fulfilling government contracts and maintaining international business relationships.

Nevada Republicans received significantly more money from the pharmaceutical industry last year than Democrats, with Gov. Joe Lombardo making up the majority of his party’s haul, according to a Nevada Independent analysis of campaign finance data.
Southern Nevada’s economy is less diversified compared to other Mountain West metropolitan areas despite gains in key economic sectors over the past decade. The Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) unveiled a study prepared by 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s Brookings Mountain West, Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) and Transportation Research Center that addresses key barriers and makes recommendations to strengthen and diversify the Southern Nevada economy.
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker is expending political and financial capital around the country — from Ohio to Nevada — on ballot measures to enshrine abortion protections in state constitutions. But similar efforts in Illinois remain in limbo.

A group of personal injury law firms have given over $4.5 million to campaigns and political committees in Nevada since 2017, a report shows.

Republican front-runner Sam Brown threw a curveball in Nevada’s Senate race last Wednesday when he revealed in an NBC interview that he would not support a federal abortion ban and respects Nevada’s current law protecting abortion up to 24 weeks.
In the past, when Taiwan was included in Western academia, it was often treated as a footnote within broader fields of study, such as East Asia or China studies. But now, that’s beginning to change.
At the age of 12, Wally Amos moved to Harlem, N.Y. to live with his Aunt Della, who never failed to fill their home with the sweet aroma of her special chocolate chip cookie recipe –– a recipe that would eventually drive Amos to make his own cookies, along with the country’s first ever cookie-only retail store in Hollywood, Calif. in 1975.
According to a survey by a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ), the use of TikTok by supporters of the Kuomintang or Democratic Progressive Party does not have a significant impact on political attitudes, but supporters of the centrist People's Party change from supporting Taiwanese independence to opposing Taiwanese independence. It was found that there was a tendency to change from a pro-American orientation to a pro-China orientation.

Facing long lines and nippy weather, more Nevada Republicans than the Nevada GOP had expected came out to their caucus locations to show support for former President Donald Trump. Some voters expressed frustration and called the processes disorganized, begging the question: Will the Nevada Republican Party try to do it again?
This year's races in the state "were created to give all the convention votes to Donald Trump... They have not hidden it and it is not a secret," explains an academic.